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Administrative Staff

Jessica Gopp

408-554-4142
JGopp@scu.edu

Miranda Kollath

408-554-4308
MKollath@scu.edu

Faculty

Beers, Terry
Billings,Simone
Biswas, Mitali
Black, Rebecca
Booth, Sherryl
Bousquet, Marc
Brown, Phyllis
Burnham, Michelle
Carroll, Stephen
Chang, Juliana
Dennis, Scott
Dreher, Diane
Dunbar, Mary Judith
Edelstein, Marilyn

Elrod, Eileen Razzari
Frisbie, Susan
Garavel, Andrew
Garber, Linda
Glaser, Kirk
Gould, Jill Goodman
Hansen, Ron
Hawley, John
Julien, Heather
Krane, Denise
Kurth, Lita
LaGuardia, Dolores
Mahamdi, Cynthia
McIsaac, Claudia

Merritt, Sharon
Michalski, Robert
Myers,Tim
Nanda, Apara
Phipps, Charles
Quinn, Roseanne
Riccomini, Don
Rynes, Theodore
Townley, Jeremy
Velasco, Juan
Venkatesan, Priya
Wade, Cory
White, Fred
Zorn, Jeff

	Terry L. Beers Professor Department Chair 408-554-4335 TBeers@scu.edu	Terry Beers is a Professor specializing in California Literature. He is the general editor for the California Legacy Series of books. For more information see http://www.californialegacy.org.
	Simone J. Billings Senior Lecturer 408-554-4334 SBillings@scu.edu	Simone Billings is a Senior Lecturer and faculty advisor for Sigma Tau Delta. Her courses include Critical Thinking and Writing for Honors Students, Argumentation, and Creative Nonfiction. In Fall 2009 she is a Fulbright Scholar working for the Open Campus of The University of the West Indies.
	Mitali Biswas Lecturer MBiswas@scu.edu	Mitali Biswas is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric.
	Rebecca Black Lecturer/Creative Writing Program 408-554-4647 RLblack@scu.edu	Rebecca Black is the Director of Creative Writing and a lecturer in English. She is a poet and writer with expertise in contemporary poetry and poetics. She teaches the introductory and advanced poetry workshops. She is also the faculty advisor to the student-run literary magazine, the Santa Clara Review.
	Sherryl Booth Senior Lecturer 408-551-2364 SBooth@scu.edu	Sherryl Booth is a Senior Lecturer where she teaches a variety of courses in Composition and Literature and serves as faculty advisor for the English Club. She is also Faculty Director for Cyphi Residential Learning Community, affiliated faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender and the Environmental Studies Institute, and the Chair of the Canterbury Program.(http://www.scu.edu/cas/environmentalstudies/index.cfm).
	Marc Bousquet Associate Professor 408-551-7088 PBousquet@scu.edu	Marc Bousquet is an Associate Professor teaching courses in Politics and Literature, Internet Culture, and Writing with New Media. You can visit his home page.
	Phyllis Brown Associate Professor 408-554-4930 PBrown@scu.edu	Phyllis Brown is an Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Core Curriculum. She is affiliated with the Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program.
	Michelle Burnham Professor 408-554-4386 MBurnham@scu.edu	Michelle Burnham is an Associate Professor whose specialty is Colonial American Literature, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Native American Literature, Early Modern Transatlantic Literature, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory.
	Stephen Carroll Lecturer/Director of Core Writing 408-551-7087 SCarroll@scu.edu	Stephen Carroll is a Lecturer and the Director of Core Writing who teaches both core writing and business writing classes. He is the director of the English Department Internship Program.
	Juliana Chang Associate Professor 408-551-1885 JChang@scu.edu	Associate Professor Juliana Chang teaches Asian American/American Literature, Psychoanalytic Theory, Poetry, and Asian American Women courses.
	Scott Dennis Lecturer PDennis@scu.edu	Scott Dennis is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Business Writing and Composition and Rhetoric.
	Diane Dreher Professor 408-554-4954 DDreher@scu.edu	Diane Dreher is a Professor who teaches a wide variety of courses including Renaissance Literature, Spiritual Autobiography, Milton, Shakespeare, Creative Nonfiction and Literature and Religion. www.dianedreher.com/
	Mary Judith Dunbar Associate Professor 408-554-4001 JDunbar@scu.edu	Mary Judith Dunbar is an Associate Professor whose speciality is Shakespeare. She is also affiliated with Women and Gender Studies program.
	Marilyn Edelstein Associate Professor 408-554-4123 MEdelstein@scu.edu	Marilyn Edelstein is an Associate Professor who specializes in Contemporary Literature and Critical Theory. She is affiliated with the Women and Gender Studies program.
	Eileen Razzari Elrod Associate Professor Associate Chair 408-554-4136 EElrod@scu.edu	Associate Professor (and Associate Chair of the English Department) Eileen Razzari Elrod has a joint appointment in English and Women's and Gender Studies. Her research interests include religion, race, gender and autobiography in American Literature.
	Susan Frisbie Senior Lecturer 408-554-4928 SFrisbie@scu.edu	Susan Frisbie is a Senior Lecturer who teaches Composition and Rhetoric and is the Pre-Law Advisor.
	Linda Garber Associate Professor/Director of Women's & Gender Studies 408-551-1913 LGarber@scu.edu	Associate Professor and Director of the Womens and Gender Studies Department, Linda Garber teaches English Composition, Literature and courses in Women and Gender Studies.
	Andrew Garavel, S.J. Assistant Professor 408-551-6012 AGaravel@scu.edu	Assistant Professor Andrew Garavel S.J. teaches courses in Literature and Composition and Rhetoric.
	Kirk Glaser Lecturer 408-554-4384 KGlaser@scu.edu	Kirk Glaser is a Lecturer with a specialty in Creative Writing and Writing for Children.
	Jill Goodman Gould Senior Lecturer 408-554-4143 Jgoodman@scu.edu	Jill Goodman Gould is a Senior Lecturer who teaches Composition and Literature courses. She is the director of the Credential Program for students wishing to teach at the secondary level.
	Ron Hansen Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. Professor 408-554-4130 RHansen@scu.edu	Ron Hansen is the Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. Professor in the department who specializes in Screenwriting.
	John Hawley Professor 408-554-4956 JHawley@scu.edu	John Hawley is a Professor and Chair of the English Department. He has taught courses as varied as beginning Composition and Rhetoric to Pan-African Literature, Postcolonial and Commonweatlth Literatures, Contemporary Literature, Introduction to Poetry, Indian Literature and courses in the Women and Gender Studies program
	Heather Julien Lecturer 408-551-1921 HJulien@scu.edu	Heather Julien is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Literature as well as Victorian Literature.
	Denise Krane Lecturer 408-551-7093 DKrane@scu.edu	Denise Krane is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric.
	Lita Kurth Adjunct Lecturer 408-554-4142 LKurth@scu.edu	Lita Kurth is an Adjunct Lecturer who teaches a variety of courses including Composition and Literature, Business Writing, and Creative Writing.
	Dolores LaGuardia Lecturer/Writing Center Director 408-554-4585 DLaguardia@scu.edu	Dolores LaGuardia is a Lecturer who specializes in teaching Business Writing courses. Dolores is also the University's Writing Center "HUB" Director.
	Cynthia Mahamdi Lecturer 408-554-1886 CSMahamdi@scu.edu	Cynthia Mahamdi is a Lecturer who teaches Composition and Rhetoric.
	Claudia McIsaac Senior Lecturer 408-554-4932 CMcisaac@scu.edu	Claudia McIsaac is a Senior Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric and Creative Writing.
	Sharon Merritt Lecturer 408-551-4683 SMerritt@scu.edu	Sharon Merritt is a Lecturer specializing in courses in Composition and Rhetoric.
	Robert Michalski Lecturer 408-551-1922 RMichalski@scu.edu	Robert Michalski is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric.
	Tim Myers Lecturer 408-554-5068 TMyers@scu.edu	Tim Myers is a Lecturer in the English Department and the Department of Education. His specialty is children's literature.
	Aparajita Nanda Lecturer 408-551-7096 ANanda1@scu.edu	Aparajita Nanda is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric.
	Charles Phipps S.J. Associate Professor 408-551-1859 CPhipps@scu.edu	Charles Phipps S.J. is an Associate Professor who teaches American and British Literature.
	Roseanne Quinn Lecturer 408-554-4376 RQuinn@scu.edu	Roseanne Quinn is a Lecturer in the department teaching Composition and Rhetoric with an emphasis on Italian Women. She is affiliated with the Women and Gender Program.
	Don Riccomini Lecturer 408-551-1923 DRiccomini@scu.edu	Don Riccomini is a Lecturer in the department teaching Composition and Rhetoric and Writing for Engineers as well as Argumentation.
	Theodore Rynes, S.J. Assistant Professor 408-554-4729 TRynes@scu.edu	Theodore Rynes S.J. is an Assistant Professor whose specialty includes Literature and Religion courses, 18th Century British Literature and Western Culture.
	Jeremy Townley Lecturer 408-554-4127 JTownley@scu.edu	Jeremy Townley is a writer with expertise in composition and rhetoric, fiction writing, and contemporary literatures.
	Juan Velasco Associate Professor 408-551-7095 j1velasco@scu.edu	Associate Professor Juan Velasco teaches courses in Chicano Literature and Lifewriting.
	Priya Venkatesan Lecturer PVenkatesan@scu.edu	Priya Venkatesan is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric.
	Cory Wade Senior Lecturer 408-554-4952 CWade@scu.edu	Cory Wade is a Senior Lecturer in the department. She specializes in courses in Western Culture, English Literature and the History of the English Language.
	Fred White Professor 408-554-4955 FWhite@scu.edu	Fred White is an Associate Professor whose speciality is Nonfiction Writing.
	Jeff Zorn Senior Lecturer 408-554-4951 JZorn@scu.edu	Senior Lecturer Jeff Zorn has taught at Santa Clara since 1974. In addition to Composition and Rhetoric courses he teaches Argumentation, and Writing for Teachers.

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